T3 Kinect for Windows SDK to get hand-recognition, 3D-modeling on March 18th The Verge We've been expecting Microsoft to release an update to the Kinect SDK for Windows that would enable both hand recognition and real-time 3D modeling, and today we...

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Microsoft notices that many developers were using the Kinect for core UI functions much more than Microsoft originally expected. Microsoft wanted to standardize those gestures so developers could focus on the unique parts of their apps.

Liz Nord: "No matter how you feel about it, virtual reality filmmaking and experiential storytelling is happening. And it's getting better and better. No longer just a gimmick, filmmakers are using the technology to serve the story instead of the other way around."

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Mike Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw, and Ralph McQuarrie.

The Passion Competition was born in 2007. Initially it was a just for fun type thing. In 2009 we started offering cash prizes. 2010 saw corporate sponsors like Reallusion, Sony Software and Moviestorm offer their software as prizes, This brought in additional entries but not to the level we expected. 2015 saw the addition of small cash prizes on top of the software.

To help the competition grow we would like to offer higher cash prizes ($250, $500, etc.) to supplement the software but due to a limited financial situation prizes larger than $50 are not obtainable without help.

The money raised here will go mainly to the prize chest but some of it will be used to help advertise the competition on various sites. We have paid artists to create videos ads in the past (this came as out of pocket money) and would like to continue doing so. All monies raised will be used strictly for the competition and none will go for personal use.

Last month, Titan Comics announced it would be bringing the delightfully weird manga adaptation of the BBC’s smash hit Sherlock to the west for the very first time, four years after it debuted in Japan. Want a peek? io9 has a first look at the translation, as well as the variant covers for the manga’s first issue.

On a saturday night if im not out with friends, I will lay back and watch a disney movie or my personal favourites Star Wars, Harry Potter or Indiana Jones ( Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). Movies have always been an interest to me with their visual/CGI effects that are used. I enjoy watching a movie that feature some of my favourite actors or actresses, Harrision Ford, Danielle Radcliff, Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush are a few of my personal favuorites.

This news is as entirely unexpected as it is great: Boom! Studios has announced that its wildly successful teen comic series Lumberjanes is going to crossover with DC Comics’ very own Gotham Academy, creating what might just be the hippest teen mystery team-up in comic book history.

Internet television. The final frontier for Star Trek. The much-loved sci-fi franchise will be returning to TV on US channel CBS in January 2017, a few months after the 50th anniversary of the original series. But there's one catch: the new series is only going to be available on CBS All Access, the TV channel's...

Gillian Shaw: "Paul Pattison and Luke Minaker knew they were onto something when they got an email from the mother of a nine-year-old who read the first instalment of their interactive story, Weirdwood Manor" ...

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